The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions. Carveth Read

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       Carveth Read

      The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664591623

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MAN FROM THE ANTHROPOIDS

       § 1. The Hypothesis

       § 2. What the Hypothesis Explains

       § 3. Minor and Secondary Consequences

       § 4. Prey and Competitors

       § 5. Conclusion

       CHAPTER II ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN FROM THE ANTHROPOID MIND

       § 1. Heredity, Adaptation, Accommodation

       § 2. The Original Stock and the Conditions of Differentiation

       § 3. Primal Society

       § 4. Psychology of the Hunting-pack

       § 5. The Wolf-type of Man established by Natural Selection

       § 6. Some further Consequences of the Hunting-life

       § 7. Moralisation of the Hunters

       § 8. Influence of the Imaginary Environment

       CHAPTER III BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION

       § 1. Superstition

       § 2. Imagination

       § 3. Belief

       § 4. Causes and Grounds of Belief

       § 5. The Beliefs of Immature Minds

       § 6. The Reasoning of Immature Minds

       § 7. General Ideas at the Savage Level

       § 8. The Weakness of Imagination-beliefs

       CHAPTER IV MAGIC

       § 1. Antiquity of Magic

       § 2. What is Magic?

       § 3. The Beginnings of Magic

       § 4. Magical Force and Primitive Ideas of Causation

       § 5. Magic and Mystery

       § 6. Volitional Magic

       § 7. The Evolution of Magic—Direct Magic

       § 8. Indirect or “Sympathetic” Magic

       § 9. The Dissolution of Magic

       CHAPTER V ANIMISM

       § 1. What is Animism?

       § 2. Psychological Animism

       § 3. The Ghost Theory

       § 4. Extension of the Ghost Theory to Animals

       § 5. Ghosts and Soul-stuff

       § 6. Ghosts and Spirits

       § 7. How Ghosts and Spirits are imagined

       § 8. Origin and Destiny of Souls

       § 9. The Treatment of Ghosts

       § 10. Evolution and Dissolution of Animism

       CHAPTER VI THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGIC AND ANIMISM

       § 1. The Question of Priority

       § 2. Magic and Religion

       § 3. Ideas and Practices of Magic adopted by Animism

       § 4. Retrogradation